Police In Akwa Ibom Arrest Woman Who Faked Her Own Kidnapping

A woman who supposedly staged her own kidnapping has been taken into custody by Akwa Ibom police

Operatives of the Akwa Ibom State Police Command at Ikot Akpanabia State Headquarters have detained one Imaobong Francis Sampson, and her boyfriend, Beltus Ebong, for staging her own kidnap. The state's Commissioner of Police (CP), Mr. Waheed Ayilara.

Waheed Ayilara, the state's commissioner of police, revealed this to reporters on Friday during a briefing in Uyo.

He added that 52 people were detained by police officers for a variety of crimes, including fraud, kidnapping, armed robbery, child trafficking, cultism, and murder.

One of them organized her own kidnapping; she is a woman from Nung Oku village in Akwa Ibom's Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area.

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command agents captured her after she demanded N4 million as ransom.

He said, “A report was received on Monday from one Enobong Sampson that her sister had been kidnapped and that the kidnappers were demanding N4m as ransom.

“As a result, operatives of Anti-kidnapping Squad of the Command embarked on an intense and intelligence-driven operation to track down the kidnappers and rescue the victim.

“On Tuesday, however, the purported victim and her boyfriend were arrested at a hideout at Mbierebe Obio, Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area.

“She confessed to have conspired with her boyfriend and three others to proclaim her kidnap to raise money from her aunty based outside the country.”

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A man was detained by police on Wednesday in Uruting village, Okobo Local Government Area, for the murder of his 75-year-old father with a machete, according to the police commissioner.

According to the police commissioner, the suspect's motivation was that his late father had sold every piece of land he owned, including the one he had given him to build his home.

Ayilara added that on March 8, authorities detained a guy in Ayam village, located in the state's Etinan Local Government Area, on suspicion of producing tainted fruits, beverages, and counterfeit goods.